Romeo and Juliet recap plot 2

What do the following lines from the prologue immediately focus the audience's attention on:

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

3 correct answers

• There was a disagreement but it is in the past now.

• There is a long-standing grudge between the Montagues and Capulets.

• Recently an argument has started between the Montagues and Capulets.

• The fighting is ongoing in the present and it goes against the laws of Verona.

• The arguing often results in physical fighting, injury and death.

Which themes/ concepts does the following quotation relate to:

A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;...

Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

2 answers

• Fate

• Religion

• Individuality versus society expectation

• Masculinity

What does the following quotation suggest about power in the play?

And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,

2 answers

• Parents and children were equal in the play.

• Children had the most power.

• Because parents made important decisions for their children, it had a significant impact on Romeo and Juliet's lives.

• Male characters generally have more power than females.

• Juliet could have changed what happened.

What do the following quotations show about Tybalt?

Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.

and

Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,
To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.

2 answers

• Tybalt tries to ignore the feud.

• Tybalt is motivated by the feud; he uses it as an opportunity to bring violence to Verona

• Tybalt is presented as a dynamic character who changes during the play.

• Tybalt is a static character who represents the negative consequences of the feud.

What does the following quotation reveal about Juliet in Act 2, Scene 2 (balcony scene)?

It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say 'It lightens.

3 answers

• She is happy with the speed of her relationship with Romeo.

• She feels the relationship is moving too quickly.

• She is being impulsive.

• Shakespeare presents Juliet as rational, logical and having clear insight.

• Juliet fears the relationship may end before it's begun.

What techniques are being used in the following quotations:

my life is my foe's debt.

and

My grave is like to be my wedding bed.

2 answers

• Dramatic irony

• Adjectives

• Foreshadowing

• Personification

What technique is used in the following quotation?

O happy dagger!

• Simile

• Sibilance

• Personification

• Pathetic fallacy